July Stop Trafficking Newsletter

Human Trafficking

for the Removal of Organs

Pakistani police rail an apartment near the capital Islamabad and release 24 people locked inside. The men and women who had been brought there through deception and threats were waiting to be taken to a clinic. They had heard that one of their kidneys would be removed.

What if you woke up one day and your kidney was gone?
  

Human trafficking isn't just about forced labor or sexual exploitation. Organ trafficking is not the same as trafficking for organ removal. Trafficking for organ removal is an individual being trafficked for the purpose of removing their organ(s), whereas organ trafficking is the illegal buying and selling of organs. A trafficked organ could come from a trafficked individual but that is not always the case; they may be two separate crimes. The two terms should not be conflated.

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The HOTT Project

The HOTT Project, an international research project, 'combating trafficking in persons for the purpose of organ removal', was the first EU-funded project against this neglected form of trafficking in human beings. 

Their findings were compiled into nine reports, all available on their website. The reports were also published in various journals and distributed among police forces and other stakeholders worldwide.

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